Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!egisin
From: egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Video interrupts: using or disabling
Message-ID: <17457@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 88 22:01:56 GMT
References: <2509@tekig5.TEK.COM> <1012@atari.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1012@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> If you disable vblank (i.e. run at IPL 7), the mouse and blinking cursor
> will stop, and the floppy motor won't shut off if it's on.  That's
> about all -- no great bloody crashes.  I run this way when remote
> debugging sometimes and it works fine.

You CAN trash a disk if you change floppies (assuming the motor
isn't stuck running) because media change won't be recognized with
vblank disabled.